MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH,
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PRIVY COUNCIL

12th August, 1960.

Dr. Je Merberg,
Stanford University,
Palo Alto,

Dept. of Genetics,
California, U.S.A.

Dear Josh,

The misunderstanding was on my part; I find a note in the
file that I should send the plate counts on the experiment on pair-
formation. The details are attached, and also the details for
table 1 which are referred to in the text but would be clearer if
included in the table. Two or three queries, on which we had not
made a decision, are noted but they seem unimportant ones.

The Institute of Biology has asked if I will give a paper on
dangers‘of in.erplanetary contamination at a space biology collo-
quium in September: This my get published, as the Director
thinks it needs publicity. When it is finished I will send a type-
script - it will largely be borrowings from your ideas I am afraid!

Am getting more interested in longevity of bacteria in nature,
and hope to get some suitable material. Paul Ehrlich and I may try
the NSF for the grasshopper glacier. More on this in due course.

Yukinori is here and we plan tc meet in a day or two. Joan
sends, with me, our warmest wishes to you both, and to all at
Stanford,